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Asked: May 10, 20262026-05-10T15:40:56+00:00 2026-05-10T15:40:56+00:00

In my database (SQL 2005) I have a field which holds a comment but

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In my database (SQL 2005) I have a field which holds a comment but in the comment I have an id and I would like to strip out just the id, and IF possible convert it to an int:

activation successful of id 1010101

The line above is the exact structure of the data in the db field.

And no I don’t want to do this in the code of the application, I actually don’t want to touch it, just in case you were wondering 😉

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  1. 2026-05-10T15:40:57+00:00Added an answer on May 10, 2026 at 3:40 pm

    This should do the trick:

    SELECT SUBSTRING(column, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', column), 999) FROM table 

    Based on your sample data, this that there is only one occurence of an integer in the string and that it is at the end.

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